Corn-planter and fertilizer-distributer



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J. MORGAN. CORN PLANTER AND FERTILIZER DISTRIBUTER. No. 440,492. Patented Nov. 11, 1890.

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J. MORGAN. CORN PLANTER AND FERTILIZER DISTRIBUTER. No. 440,492. Patented'Nov. 11, 1890.

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JAMES MORGAN, OF NILES, OHIO.

CORN-PLANTER AND FERTILIZER-DISTRIBUTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 440,492, dated November 11, 1890.

Application filed May 5, 1890. Serial No. 350,584. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

. Be it known that I, JAMES MORGAN, of Niles, 1n the county of Trumbull and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Corn-Planters and Fertilizer- Dlstributersg and I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in corn planters and fertiliZer-distributers, and it consists in certain features of construction and in combination of parts hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation. Fig. 2 is a plan. Fig. 3 is an elevation in transverse section on line :0 as, Fig. 1. Fig. at is a perspective view of the feedwheel cover. Fig. 5 is a plan of the covcrers.

A represents a suitable frame. floored over to provide a suitable table or platform A, this structure being provided with boxes A 1n which boxes is j ournaled the axle B. This axle is provided with wheels B B mounted loose on the axle. The hub of wheel 13 is provided with jaws o adapted to engage the opposing jaws c of sleeve 0, this mechanism constituting a clutch of well-known variety. WVhen the clutch is closed wheel B serves as a traction-wheel for rotating the axle, and with the clutch open the wheels both revolve on the axle. Upon platform A are mounted the different hoppers or containers D D D, each hopper having an internal vertical partition D, dividing the hoppers into compartments D D respectively, for corn or other grain, the other compartments being for fertilizer. Centrally located at the bottom of each hopper is a feed-wheel E, having a series of holes carranged in concentric order with the axis 6 of the wheel. These wheels E somewhat resemble what are usually called starwheels, having projecting wings or members E that are engaged by arms f of wheel F, the latter being rigidly mounted on the axle.

G are forked feed-tubes, the prongs thereof G G passing astride the axle and are secured to the under side of the platform, the latter being provided with holes a a that discharge, respectively, into the branch tubes G G tube G discharging into the furrows of the cultivator-blades H. The latter are pivoted, respectively, at h to supporting-arms H. These arms extend up loosely through slots A of the platform, the three arms H being connected by a cross-bar I. The latter in turn connects with links 1 and the links connect with crank-arms J of shaft J. To this shaft is attached a hand-lever j, by operating which the different cultivator-blades are simultaneously raised or lowered, and a catch of some kind is provided for holding lever j in its forward position, whereby the cultivator-blades are elevated above the ground. Sleeve 0, aforesaid, is of course mounted loosely on the axle, so that it may slide endwise thereon, but is held from turning on the axle by the well-known device of spline and groove. This sleeve is provided with an annular groove, in which operates band C. The latter is connected bylinks o with the depending arm of bell-crank lever K, the latter beingpivoted at 7.5. The lateral arm of the bell crank lever is connected by link 0 with bar I aforesaid, so that the same movement of lever j that lowers the cultivatorblades to engage the ground also closes the clutch, and the clutch is opened by reversing the hand -lever for raising the cultivatorblades. Arms H near the lower ends thereof have pivoted thereto at h links 7L2, these links in turn being pivoted at h to forwardly-projecting ears of tubes G. To rearwardly-projecting ears of these tubes are pivoted at g the covering A blades g. The forward ends of blades g and the rearward ends of links h are pivotally connected at 1 the one member having a slot in which the pivotal pin operates. When, therefore, the cultivator-blades are elevated the covering-blades are also elevated, and when the cultivator-blades are de pressed so as to enter the ground the rearward sections of the covering-blades drag along the ground and cover the grain and fertilizer that have been deposited in the furrows. The cultivator-blades are held in workingposition,respectively, by means of springs H these springs connecting with the cultivatorblades forward of the pivotal bearings of the latter, and the springs connecting above with pins 11 of arms If. If therefore, a cultivatorblade meets with an obstruction,the blade may turn rearward against the action of its spring, and the recoil of the spring Will return the ICO blade forward to its normal or working position as soon as the obstruction is passed.

The device as shown is adapted to simultaneously plant three rows of corn or other grain, but a machine may be constructed on the same principle to plant any desired number of rows-one or more. If the hills of corn along the road should be, say, three feet apart, wheels 13 B should be nine feet in circumference, in which case wheel F should have three arms, by which arrangement the feedwheels E are moved one notch by each engagement; and as holes 6 correspond in number with wings E each movement of the wheel E brings one hole eover hole a of the platform and brings a hole e over hole a of the platform, theone hole ebeing laden with grain and the opposite hole ebeing filled with fertilizer, and both are simultaneously discharged. A thin plate E extends forward and rearward across the face of each wheel E, these plates being located directly under the partitions D, serving to strike off the superfluous corn and fertilizer that is being carried in holes 6 to the discharging-orifices a a Acover or guard L fits inside each hopper, this member having a central fiang' ed opening adapted to expose the series of holes 6 of the feed-Wheel E below. Member L has an upwardly-projecting conical rim L, and an arched section of this rim Z for accommodating arms f of wheel F; also, are

provided legs Z, adapted to reston the plat v forl'nA" to support member L with its central flange close to the face of the feed-wheels.

lVith the construction shown and described the operator has to manipulate only one lever j in raising and lowering the cultivator-blade and in opening and closing the clutch.

What I claim is 1. In a machine for planting corn and distributing fertilizer, the combination, with an axle, Wheels loose thereon, cultivator-blades, a cross-bar connecting the arms'or shanks of the blades, a rocking shaft having cranks thereon, links connecting these cranks with the cross-bar, and hand-lever 011 the rocking shaft for raising and lowering the cultivatorblades, of a clutch for coupling the axle with one of its wheels, abell-cranklever, andlinks connecting the ends of thelatter, respectively, with the clutch and cross-bar, substantially as set forth.

2. In mechanism for plantingg'rainand distributing fertilizer, the com bi-nation, with cultivator-blades, of coverers pivoted to supports near their upper ends, and'pivoted links connected with the cultivalors and with the coverers, whereby when the cultivators' are elevated the coverers are also elevated,- substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I sign this specification, in the presence of two witnesses, this 14th day of April, 1890.

JAMES MORGAN.

Witnesses;

W. P. EvANs, JOHN A. HIMES. 

